A $100 Gold-Infused Lobster Roll Is NYC’s Latest Extravagance

Apparently there’s a market for $100 gold-infused lobster rolls in Brooklyn

There’s a new lobster roll shop heading to Crown Heights this week — with a $100 roll that comes “infused” with 24K gold. To make matters more luxurious, the restaurant dubbed BK Lobster will serve the golden lobster with a glass of wine that has 23K gold flakes in it. It’s not the first expensive gimmick to hit Brooklyn: Sunset Park was also once home to the country’s most expensive cup of coffee, though that cafe closed last year.

The rest of the BK Lobster menu is decidedly less dramatic and centers on more average, if uniquely flavored rolls around $20. The restaurant’s tagline boasts “experience lobster rolls the Brooklyn way,” and as such, each sandwich on the menu is named after a Brooklyn neighborhood. For instance, the “Flatbush roll” comes with jerk sauce to represent its Caribbean community and the “Bay Ridge roll” with roasted peppers and Italian dressing.

Owner Rodney Bonds has developed franchises across the country and founded the Magic Soul Food chain in NYC, which he no longer owns. BK Lobster opens at 535 Nostrand Ave., between Herkimer Street and Atlantic Avenue — a stretch of the neighborhood that doesn’t have a ton of dining options beyond fast-food chains and the excellent David’s Brisket House — on Saturday at 3 p.m.

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— Momofuku Ssäm Bar is just now cashing in on that sweet summer patio dining. The East Village restaurant has added outdoor patio seating and a new snacks menu, which will run through the fall with dishes like smoked trout dip with chicharron and spicy longfin tuna confit with fingerling potatoes.

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— Forbes writer digs the Argentinian fare and “impressive” wine list at East Village restaurant Buenos Aires.

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